﻿<topic>
	<head>
		<title>Left Outer Join</title>
		<keywords>
			<keyword term="execution plan, left outer join"/>
			<keyword term="logical operators, left outer join"/>
		</keywords>
		<links>
			<link href="Execution Plan Reference.html">Execution Plan Reference</link>
		</links>
	</head>
	<body>
		<summary>
			<p>
				The <b>Left Outer Join</b> operator returns each row that satisfies the join of the first (top) input with the second (bottom)
				input. It also returns any rows from the first input that had no matching rows in the second input. The nonmatching rows in the
				second input are returned as <c>NULL</c>. If no join predicate exists in the <c>Predicate</c> property, each row is a matching
				row.
			</p>
			<p>
				<b>Left Outer Join</b> is a logical operator.
			</p>
		</summary>
	</body>
</topic>
